Zephyro Spira - Where the Wind Blows

The title Zephyro Spira (“The wind blows…”) is a poetic evocation of spring’s gentle breezes as a metaphor for the cycles of love. This image of renewal and transformation mirrors how the emotional extremes of love continue to move us today, evoking both the joy of new beginnings and the melancholy of inevitable change.

This program takes particular inspiration from the flourishing musical life of 16th-century Venice, a city renowned not only for its grandeur and cosmopolitanism, but also as a cradle of musical and poetic innovation.